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Expand Healthcare Information Access While Ensuring HIPAA Compliance

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Increase Security to Better Manage Information Access for HIPAA Compliance

Complying with HIPAA regulations has been top of mind for healthcare providers over the last several years. With the HIPAA Security Rule now in effect, providers are continuing compliance efforts such as maintenance, auditing and process improvements. One ongoing challenge is how to ensure HIPAA compliance while delivering convenient access to patient information and other resources for clinicians at the point of care, which can be in a hospital, clinic, patient home or even a private practice office.  Centralization of patient data, encryption of communications, reduction of data exposure on client devices, and improved access controls are ways in which CIOs can reduce the security risks facing their organizations to strengthen regulatory compliance while giving clinicians flexible, on-demand access to critical healthcare information.

The CIO’s compliance role is to make sure the necessary administrative, physical and technical controls are in place to safeguard confidential patient information. At the same time, CIOs are challenged with expanding access to hospital systems for physicians, remote treatment facilities, and other partners along the continuum of care to increase operating efficiencies and improve quality of care.

Healthcare IT organizations are being challenged to:

  • Deliver secure remote access for physicians and other clinicians
  • Improve provisioning of access to hospital systems
  • Increase security of shared workstations / kiosks in hospitals
  • Minimize cached or saved patient information on distributed devices
  • Enhance authentication and password practices
  • Ensure encrypted communications over wireless LANs, LANs, and WANs.
  • Protect systems from malicious code
Citrix Access Suite™
Current Environment: Hospital Computing Systems where client applications are installed on end user devices.  Healthcare data is less secure, and access from some locations and devices is not possible.

Benefit

Citrix solutions facilitate flexible, real-time access to applications and information for healthcare workers at the point of care, while providing an array of security and control capabilities that support HIPAA compliance.


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